Dyslexia. what clear coloured plastic sheets help suffers to be able to make sense of written words,and why ?

Colours like green and yellow have proven to help - I have no idea why to be honest!

I think different ppl find different colours useful

They seem to have the effect of stopping the letters moving around. It's just the way that some dyslexics brain's work.

Coloured overlays reduce the perceptual distortions of text. This only helps some dyslexics and not all those find the same colour works for them.

This is to help with the visual distortions that some people experience, such as words and letters moving around, text 'shimmering', or words tending to leap out the page making reading very tiring.

There is another answer to these problems, though: visual training. If you think of a cat on a mantlepiece, say 6 feet away, how many views of it do you get? Many 3-D thinkers, like designers or engineers, even glaziers and plumbers, will get multiple views of it, because they are used to rotating shapes in their mind.

When you read, however, this is a disaster: your mind says "oh, I don't recognise that word, maybe I will if I flip it over, see it from the back" - before you know it the words are facing backwards, swapping letters, chasing each other round the page.

The solution, since it's your mind which is making the words move, is to train your mind to keep them still.

It only works for Irlen syndrome, which is not dyslexia. It is something of an eyestrain issue. Use colored overhead projector sheets or colored binder seperators from Office Stores.
For the best information on dyslexia, get the book Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz. Google her!
I have a color coded website for people with phonics issues. It does not work for dyslexics. Give www.geocities.com/carjug a 15 minute workout, if your reading speed improves, then you are not dyslexic.
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